n’importe quel

/\n‿ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə kɛl\/ adj

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

n’importe quel is anFrenchadj. It means: Au moins un ou une et quelquefois plus, en parlant d'une sélection garantie dans un ensemble. Pronounced \n‿ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə kɛl\.

Key facts for n’importe quel
PropertyValue
Headwordn’importe quel
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\n‿ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə kɛl\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

n’importe quel is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for n’importe quel is 14 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \n‿ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə kɛl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Au moins un ou une et quelquefois plus, en parlant d'une sélection garantie dans un ensemble.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for n’importe quel in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is n’importe quel, spelled N-’-I-M-P-O-R-T-E- -Q-U-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Au moins un ou une et quelquefois plus, en parlant d'une sélection garantie dans un ensemble.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "n’importe quel"?
"n’importe quel" is spelled N-’-I-M-P-O-R-T-E- -Q-U-E-L. The IPA pronunciation is \n‿ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə kɛl\.
What does "n’importe quel" mean?
As an adj, "n’importe quel" means: Au moins un ou une et quelquefois plus, en parlant d'une sélection garantie dans un ensemble.
How do you pronounce "n’importe quel"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "n’importe quel" is \n‿ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə kɛl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "n’importe quel" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.